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Natural Selection is a group exhibition featuring the work of Favio Moreno, Mylan Nguyen, Brent Ozaeta, and Taro Waggoner. These close friends have collaborated frequently over the last decade, having shown together in various Dallas area gallery spaces, as well as organizing site specific events, such as Super Fantasy Mercado, a boutique pop-up space in a flea market, and Poo Poo Pee Pee Gallery, an experimental exhibition space inside of a restroom on the campus of Southern Methodist University.

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Favio Moreno is a painter based in Dallas, Texas. The environment of his youth ranged from California, to Mexico, and Texas, with the Latin American culture he experienced influencing his personal visual language. Another visual influence for the artist is that of the iconographic imagery of contemporary US based design. He divides his time between painting, printmaking, design, and mural work, in his signature style of hard-edged painting, with a refined sense of saturated and flat color shapes.

 

Brent Ozaeta is a Dallas based painter and printmaker. His work is known for its flat graphic style influenced heavily by Japanese animation and pop culture. He juxtaposes imagery and pattern fragments into dense image fields on flattened picture planes in his paintings and works on paper. He has a variety of other side projects, including zine production, musician gig posters, and t-shirt design.

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Born in Dallas, Texas in 1986, Mylan Nguyen is a Vietnamese / Mexican American artist. She received her BFA in Illustration from the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and has just completed her MFA degree with Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Mylan works in a variety of media, including ceramics, illustration, printmaking, and environmental installation, and enjoys the alchemy of each of these processed based art forms.

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Taro Waggoner is a biracial folk artist, who split his time between Japan and the US as a child, and is now based in Dallas, Texas. He is heavily inspired by Japanese manga, anime, and illustration, and navigates these topics as one who straddles the dual cultures, in the cultural space of the American South. Taro's current body of work focuses on anthropomorphic sculptural ceramic works, zines, and also mini-comics which he prints through a RISO print project, Strange Powers Press.

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For more information, contact the gallery at 469-551-3967.